Not surprisingly, these three principal solutions of tradition, command, and market are distinguished by the distinct attributes they impart to their respective societies.
The socialist turn from planning toward the market provides a fitting initial conclusion to this overview of the typology of economic systems, for it is apparent that the three ideal types of tradition, command, and market have never been attained in wholly pure form.
But our tradition commands us to look beyond ourselves and to see how we have impacted others - including by our distance and unwillingness to engage.
My faith tradition commands us, over and over, that we must be holy because God is holy, that we must do justly because God is just, and that we are obligated to provide for the poor, lift up the weak and free the bound.
For these purposes, ancient kingdoms or republics still looked to tradition and command, utilizing slavery as a basic source of labour (including captives taken in war) and viewing with disdain the profit orientation of market life.
Before a system orchestrated by the market can replace one built on obedience to communal or authoritarian pressure, the social orders dependent on tradition and command must be replaced by a new order in which individuals are expected to fend for themselves and in which all are permitted even encouraged to improve their material condition.
In the Catholic tradition this command is met by a preferential option for the poor, for injecting-drug-users and those with whom they are intimate.
A devout Hindu who prided himself as the protector of his religion, he broke tradition by commanding that two of his relatives, who had been forcibly converted to Islam, should be taken back into the Hindu fold.
By incorporating them in her work, Thomas taps into a tradition of commanding womanhood.
Yet this strange tradition has commanded women and men for hundreds of years, and in verbal form, without the ink and tree bits, for thousands.
With the advent of the graphical user interface (or GUI), however, the hallowed tradition of command-line tinkering was sublimated into something palatable to lay users, to folks uninterested in learning the language of code for themselves.
